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	Upcoming Events and Exhibitions
On View Coming Up Design Fair The Big Show Day of the Dead Día de los Muertos Archives	July 28 & 29, 2010 The Big Slide Show July 28 & 29, 6 – 8 PM Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 6:00 PM each night at Lawndale Art Center. Come early as seating is limited. click here for more information on The Big Show [ back to top ]
	August 2010-May 2011 2010-2011 Exhibition Season Lawndale Art Center's 2010-2011 exhibition season will include artists Mark Aguhar, Logan Sebastian Beck, Boozefox, Craig Colorusso, Hollis Cooper, Deb Karpman & Kimberly Hennessy, Robert Jackson Harrington, Tobiah Mundt, Maria Smits, David Sullivan, The Bridge Club Collaborative, and Rachelle Vasquez. Exhibitions at Lawndale are selected by Lawndale's Programming Committee. If you are interested in proposing an exhibition for our 2010-2011 exhibition season, please visit our proposals page to learn more about submitting an exhibition proposal. [ back to top ]
	August 20 –September 25, 2010 Opening Reception Friday, August 20, 2010 from 6:30–8:30 PM Artist Talks at 6 PM Math of the Afterwrath \| Boozefox John M. O’Quinn Gallery Boozefox, an Austin based collective collecting consortium, in cooperation with Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the first and only viewing of their most cherished artifact. Salvaged from the Gulf of Mexico inside the Chicxulub Crater, this Pre-Khormusan monument resembles that of a giant head. Made entirely of tektites and partially melted zircons, the head weighs in excess of 450 tons, radiates substantial heat, and seems to change its shape and features periodically. Due to an inexplicably contracted ex-post-facto-virus, the artifact is being rapidly consumed from within. The virus is currently boring large tunnels from an enormous, spherical abscess which suddenly appeared yesterday. The virus is carving its way outward and is producing a distinctly weird smell. In light of the current consumption rate, the artifact will be on view for a limited time only. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Potential Modulations\| Robert Jackson Harrington Mezzanine Gallery Potential Modulations explores the use of mass-produced objects in an art context and hopes to start a dialogue by asking questions such as how do we individualize or personalize things that are inherently not produced to be individual? Other themes explored include the idea of potential and the concepts of what could be versus what is. Utilizing the Mezzanine Gallery, Harrington plans to install several sculptural elements to create a new modular sculpture that adjusts to the possibilities of different sites. These assemblages explore the definitions between sculpture and installation because it must factor the given site into its implementation. For example, the effect on an installation’s arrangement can come from the differing architectural placement of electrical outlets (if any) from various sites, yet the work retains it sculptural identity from location to location. Artist's website [ back to top ]
	BEING \| Tobiah Mundt Grace R. Cavnar Gallery BEING is an exhibit of fantastical creatures realized through sculpted wool and fabric. These works by artist Tobiah Mundt interpret and explore how we read and react to human emotion through anthropomorphic and zoomorphic forms, rendering feelings through facial expression, color, shape, and physicality. Her works are created with a process called sculptural needle felting by which raw wool is shaped into three-dimensional form using barbed needles. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Following Huck Finn \| Logan Sebastian Beck Project Space “The road trip is an undeniably American idea, one that is ingrained in every American by its authors and photographers. As Americans, the ideas of ‘manifest destiny’ and ‘the pursuit of happiness’ are axes on which our cultural identities are built upon.”- Logan Sebastian Beck Following Huck Finn documents a long-distance bicycle tour from Houston, TX to Hannibal, MO in honor of the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. Traveling up the Mississippi river– following, in reverse, the path of Huck Finn and Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Beck seeks out the remnants of Huck’s world as well as the new American rural ideal and documents his findings through photography. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Also on view Snack Projects \| featuring Nancy Douthey Snack Projects is a miniature and portable art space, a “gallery” measuring 11” x 20” x 13”, organized by artists Michael Guidry and Robert Ruello, featuring the work of both local and regional artists. [ back to top ]
	Also on view August 20 –August 26, 2010 Those Who Fell through the Cracks Noor \| Stanley Greene & Kadir van Lohuizen A Mobile Photography Exhibition Hurricane Katrina Survivors Five Years After the Storm in collaboration with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Center for Photography August 21, 2010 12:30–1:30 PM Meet the artists At Lawndale Art Center 2:00–4:30 PM Afternoon Symposium At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater A Mobile Photography Exhibition Hurricane Katrina Survivors Five Years After the Storm in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Center for Photography Those Who Fell Through the Cracks is a traveling mobile exhibition of large-scale mural photographs by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen showing Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath over the last five years. It is a powerful visual document of Katrina’s effects on Gulf Coast residents and the struggles they face to this day in re-establishing their lives. The photographs cover the interior and exterior of a highly innovative 24’ itinerant truck as it debuts in Houston and travels to New Orleans in September 2010 during Katrina's fifth anniversary. Those Who Fell Through the Cracks is an interactive documentation of the United States in the beginning of the 21st century, and a testament to the power of images to bring new awareness and sensitivity to communities, and foment systemic change. [ back to top ]



	Upcoming Events and Exhibitions
On View Coming Up Design Fair The Big Show Day of the Dead Día de los Muertos Archives	July 28 & 29, 2010 The Big Slide Show July 28 & 29, 6 – 8 PM Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 6:00 PM each night at Lawndale Art Center. Come early as seating is limited. click here for more information on The Big Show [ back to top ]
	August 2010-May 2011 2010-2011 Exhibition Season Lawndale Art Center's 2010-2011 exhibition season will include artists Mark Aguhar, Logan Sebastian Beck, Boozefox, Craig Colorusso, Hollis Cooper, Deb Karpman & Kimberly Hennessy, Robert Jackson Harrington, Tobiah Mundt, Maria Smits, David Sullivan, The Bridge Club Collaborative, and Rachelle Vasquez. Exhibitions at Lawndale are selected by Lawndale's Programming Committee. If you are interested in proposing an exhibition for our 2010-2011 exhibition season, please visit our proposals page to learn more about submitting an exhibition proposal. [ back to top ]
	August 20 –September 25, 2010 Opening Reception Friday, August 20, 2010 from 6:30–8:30 PM Artist Talks at 6 PM Math of the Afterwrath \| Boozefox John M. O’Quinn Gallery Boozefox, an Austin based collective collecting consortium, in cooperation with Lawndale Art Center is pleased to announce the first and only viewing of their most cherished artifact. Salvaged from the Gulf of Mexico inside the Chicxulub Crater, this Pre-Khormusan monument resembles that of a giant head. Made entirely of tektites and partially melted zircons, the head weighs in excess of 450 tons, radiates substantial heat, and seems to change its shape and features periodically. Due to an inexplicably contracted ex-post-facto-virus, the artifact is being rapidly consumed from within. The virus is currently boring large tunnels from an enormous, spherical abscess which suddenly appeared yesterday. The virus is carving its way outward and is producing a distinctly weird smell. In light of the current consumption rate, the artifact will be on view for a limited time only. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Potential Modulations\| Robert Jackson Harrington Mezzanine Gallery Potential Modulations explores the use of mass-produced objects in an art context and hopes to start a dialogue by asking questions such as how do we individualize or personalize things that are inherently not produced to be individual? Other themes explored include the idea of potential and the concepts of what could be versus what is. Utilizing the Mezzanine Gallery, Harrington plans to install several sculptural elements to create a new modular sculpture that adjusts to the possibilities of different sites. These assemblages explore the definitions between sculpture and installation because it must factor the given site into its implementation. For example, the effect on an installation’s arrangement can come from the differing architectural placement of electrical outlets (if any) from various sites, yet the work retains it sculptural identity from location to location. Artist's website [ back to top ]
	BEING \| Tobiah Mundt Grace R. Cavnar Gallery BEING is an exhibit of fantastical creatures realized through sculpted wool and fabric. These works by artist Tobiah Mundt interpret and explore how we read and react to human emotion through anthropomorphic and zoomorphic forms, rendering feelings through facial expression, color, shape, and physicality. Her works are created with a process called sculptural needle felting by which raw wool is shaped into three-dimensional form using barbed needles. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Following Huck Finn \| Logan Sebastian Beck Project Space “The road trip is an undeniably American idea, one that is ingrained in every American by its authors and photographers. As Americans, the ideas of ‘manifest destiny’ and ‘the pursuit of happiness’ are axes on which our cultural identities are built upon.”- Logan Sebastian Beck Following Huck Finn documents a long-distance bicycle tour from Houston, TX to Hannibal, MO in honor of the 175th anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. Traveling up the Mississippi river– following, in reverse, the path of Huck Finn and Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Beck seeks out the remnants of Huck’s world as well as the new American rural ideal and documents his findings through photography. Artist's Website [ back to top ]
	Also on view Snack Projects \| featuring Nancy Douthey Snack Projects is a miniature and portable art space, a “gallery” measuring 11” x 20” x 13”, organized by artists Michael Guidry and Robert Ruello, featuring the work of both local and regional artists. [ back to top ]
	Also on view August 20 –August 26, 2010 Those Who Fell through the Cracks Noor \| Stanley Greene & Kadir van Lohuizen A Mobile Photography Exhibition Hurricane Katrina Survivors Five Years After the Storm in collaboration with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Center for Photography August 21, 2010 12:30–1:30 PM Meet the artists At Lawndale Art Center 2:00–4:30 PM Afternoon Symposium At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater A Mobile Photography Exhibition Hurricane Katrina Survivors Five Years After the Storm in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Houston Center for Photography Those Who Fell Through the Cracks is a traveling mobile exhibition of large-scale mural photographs by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen showing Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath over the last five years. It is a powerful visual document of Katrina’s effects on Gulf Coast residents and the struggles they face to this day in re-establishing their lives. The photographs cover the interior and exterior of a highly innovative 24’ itinerant truck as it debuts in Houston and travels to New Orleans in September 2010 during Katrina's fifth anniversary. Those Who Fell Through the Cracks is an interactive documentation of the United States in the beginning of the 21st century, and a testament to the power of images to bring new awareness and sensitivity to communities, and foment systemic change. [ back to top ]